Crash course for the reluctant essayist
notes on the phone
On your hand,
Scripto tattoos
Things you say to me that matter
The best memories are the hardest to remember
(For your little brother’s birthday amnesia)
Prescribe
An hour or two of reading
Lists of great Greeks, Romans, monastics, Renaissance dudes
Then Romantics, Realists, Idealists, Transcendentalists
Modernists, post-modernists
At least until you reach
Warhol’s ghostly revolver
Then draw forth the prompt yourself
The passage we all know to be true
…Light in the dark…
Words shot with light
Only one can save us
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